NOT everything is sports we have art and culture in our place good children attending everyday i like the spirits of the culture

am happy with the way our netball team after doc and schalk visits our place we manage to do a togetherness and form a good team with a same spirits,vision and mission never minding a kit but being passionate we are going far academy is all the best to bring youth to one safe shelter a place to be tomorrow we manage to get a game for them and they shown that they play big games as we are preparing for mayorals cup during this month tomorrow we won 9-2 full time bigup girls you are the future…

Hello sinie i have change the name  of verona f.c to sunshines.f.c my boys a so happy for that and knau he dont have problems any more even at training we tian at amy time withoud any enterfevencn.

I was privileged to be invited to the graduations of the Grade R in one of the Creches in our locations. The young were so excited and most of them know as mchichwa from football. I remembered that yesterday I was talking about the young brothers and sisters who destroy their lifes by taking drugs and becoming mums in a young age.

but today it was a joyful day seeing young ones graduating for grade 1 next year. we were encouraging them to become better than us. the Madibas, Motsepes…

i'd like to thank youthzones family for what i am today i've learn a lot when it comes to managing and to solve ones problem,conflict and anger,when i look at our team it has develop a lot in playing style behaviour to welcome new players,youthzones play an inportant role in our academy providing us with bibs,cones,soccer balls,soccer kit,desk top,laptop,camera,coaching manuals,lifeskills so we arte developing in everything that comes through,freedom is what we need they open new sites so…

Zanele Cele (of Umlazi 419, grandmother of Mukeleni Mthembu who is an orphan and plays for Umlazi Juventus FC) called appreciating the impact we made to her grandson and how discipline and focused he is. She said he is also doing well at school. This is an old gogo who just out of the blue ask for my number and called. This is not me making it happen but…

today i meet one guy by the name of chart he use to play soccer,a very good player,a skillfull one then.he was the one that take me to hospital in 2007 october when i pick a knee injury during a tournament.so today i just come up with a question asking what went wrong when he was still a soccer player he.eish barthez a long story i use to love soccer like it was the only thing i ever wanted,i wanted to be seen on tv,being a proffessional player i had oppotunities when my father was still…

My love for media started long time ago, i always admired the voice behind the mic every time i tune in to a radio station and told myself that one-day i want to see myself behind the mic doing what the other presenters are doing. and seeing the power that radio has in reaching out to large number of people from all parts of the world with the  way it is, is a good platform…

I was away for a week and some days.... yesterday at about 6h00 in the afternoon I went to a nearby hill to get some air. What I saw really did not sit well with me. As I was sitting there next to the N3 highway - I saw a group of young boys coming from the bush across the road. They were about 15 tops in counting....and each of them had a cigarette in his hand and looking in their eyes they red - high from smoking dagga. Some used to play for our youth team of under 15.

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Hai guys my name is Mpendulo Khumalo I,m a player of Juventus f.c.I live far from our ground, But I love the team very well,and  I, manage to come to practice every day .

This week  many players are bicy with there examination here in Umlazi and all over the world I wish them good like.secondly I wanna thank our Family (Youthzones) for giving us this opportunity to connect with different people all over the country via e-mails  and Facebook.we also thanks with the soccer balls, every…

As a follow up of Raymond's Blog about visiting the Ambassador's house, I thought I should mention that Youthzones was honoured by the Ambassador himself for the for their great hospitality an good work in the community especially during the numerous visits to Mamelodi. The latest visit was by the Netherlands national cricket team that had a wonderful time with the kids of Stofel Park. The Embassy presented the team with a framed picture of the kids in action with two of the playing showing…

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SINCE OUR LEAGUE IS FINISHED- 5 PLAYERS OF UMLAZI ARSENAL WERE SELECTED TO UNDER 19 SQUAD. WE DECIDED TO JOIN UNDER 19 BOYS TOURNAMENT, AND WE WERE KNOCKOUT IN THE SEMI-FINALS BY 2 GOALS TO NILL. …

over the weekend from development to first team our under 13 visit eagles ground were our first team were fixtured to play,under 13 play against rolling stone it was anpredictable wich team is going to win as i was introducing some of the ladies to the squad but was goal less then comes penaulty shootout it was part of the game we only score 3 penaulties at the end we loss the game by 4-3.under 15 was playing a top 3 they play 1st game and manage to win the game by 2-1 advancing to the final…

It was such an honor as the co-ordinator of youthzones in mamelodi to visit the ambassador's house on the 31 October to meet and greet our friends from netherland national cricket team since they visited our site to do the cricket clinics with our guys in mamelodi,the guys told me that they really had great time in mamelodi and they said they did not want to get in their bus when the time for them to get in their bus to go back to the camp.…

Hi today i woke up and went to morning training as usual but today something special happened. I started jogging around the field as always, and as i was doing the 21st lap a women stopped me an ask if u could join me. this old women i writing about is a teacher at the creche next to our ground, she did at least two laps and while she was doing the last lap her students were shouting mam!, mam!, mam!, mam!,. it was funny and they were so happy to see her running around the field and…